Maite Santurtun Zarrabeitia

Maite Santurtún Zarrabeitia is an Assistant Professor of Nursing in the Department of Nursing at the University of Cantabria. She holds a Diploma and a Bachelor's degree in Nursing, completed a Master's Degree in Genetic, Nutritional, and Environmental Determinants of Growth and Development, and obtained the title of University Expert in Mental Health and Psychiatry. In 2017, she earned her PhD in Health Sciences from the University of Cantabria.
 
Over the past 10 years, she has developed her clinical and research activities in the field of mental health, focusing her doctoral thesis on the investigation of risk factors for suicide deaths. The results of her studies have been published in international scientific journals, book chapters, and presented at national and international conferences. Additionally, she has participated in research teams for projects funded in competitive R&D calls.
 
In the teaching field, she has been an associate professor at the Faculty of Nursing in the area of Mental Health for 10 years, has supervised undergraduate theses in the same field, and has been a member of numerous undergraduate thesis committees.